Legendary Puerto Rican national liberation fighter
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos assassinated by FBI

By Tom Soto
San Juan, Puerto Rico

On Sept. 23, as hundreds of workers and their families were participating in the annual pro-independence commemoration known as "El Grito de Lares," agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations descended on the town of Hormigueros in western Puerto Rico and fired the shots that killed Puerto Rican liberation hero Filiberto Ojeda Ríos.